If folk would but stop attributing to God, motives, opinions, arrangements and likings, which they'd
con|sider
an insult to set down to any wise and good friend of their own, how much useless bother would come to an end!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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In hot summer have I great rejoicing
When the
tempests
kill the earth's foul peace, And the lightnings from black heav'n flash crimson, And the fierce thunders roar me their music
And the winds shriek through the clouds mad, op-
posing,
And through all the riven skies God's swords clash.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Indeed to me the obligation is
stronger than to any other
individual
of our society; as "Anacharsis"
is an indispensable desideratum to a son of the muses.
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Robert Forst |
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[Footnote A: It is
unfortunate
that in this, as in many other similar
occasions in these delightful volumes by the poet's nephew, the
reticence as to names--warrantable perhaps in 1851, so soon after the
poet's death--has now deprived the world of every means of knowing to
whom many of Wordsworth's letters were addressed.
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William Wordsworth |
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I had a vision and a gleam,
I heard a sound more sweet than these
When rippled by the wind:
Did you see the Dove with wings
Bathed in golden glisterings
From a sunless light behind,
Dropping
on me from the sky,
Soft as mother's kiss, until
I seemed to leap and yet was still?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Even now
Hippolyte
prepares to leave us too:
And I fear that if he appears, in that storm,
The fickle crowd will follow him in swarms.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Or friends or
kinsfolk
on the citied earth,
To share our marriage feast and nuptial mirth?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Richly caparisoned, a ready row
Of armed horse, and many a warlike store,
Circled the wide-extending court below;
Above, strange groups adorned the corridor;
And
ofttimes
through the area's echoing door,
Some high-capped Tartar spurred his steed away;
The Turk, the Greek, the Albanian, and the Moor,
Here mingled in their many-hued array,
While the deep war-drum's sound announced the close of day.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The perfidies I recollect
Should make me much more circumspect,
Reform me both in deed and word,
And this fifth canto ought to be
From such
digressions
wholly free.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sweet is the swallow twittering on the eaves
At daybreak, when the mower whets his scythe,
And stock-doves murmur, and the milkmaid leaves
Her little lonely bed, and carols blithe
To see the heavy-lowing cattle wait
Stretching
their huge and dripping mouths across the farmyard gate.
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Wilde - Poems |
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but the
Bridegroom
lingereth
For all thy sweet youth.
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Christina Rossetti |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Once I saw thee idly rocking
--Idly rocking--
And chattering girlishly to other girls,
Bell-voiced, happy,
Careless
with the stout heart of unscarred
womanhood,
And life to thee was all light melody.
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Stephen Crane |
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Yeats in his "Celtic Twilight" treated of such, and I because in such a mood, feeling myself divided between my-
" woodland," eternal because simple in
elements
"Aetemus quia simplex naturae.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The stream, adown its hazelly path,
Was rushing by the ruin'd wa's,
Hasting to join the
sweeping
Nith,
Whase distant roaring swells and fa's.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Profitless
usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I cannot hope to wed here
Such
happiness
and grace,
On the day when I see her
Weightlessness I taste.
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Troubador Verse |
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that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in
character
was done!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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þæt rǣd talað (_counts that a gain_), 2028; ēcne rǣd (_the eternal
gain,
everlasting
life_), 1202; acc.
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Beowulf |
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The night renews the day
distracting
theme,
And airy terrors sable every dream.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He hath conquered, he cometh to free us
With
garlands
new-won,
More high than the crowns of Alpheus,
Thine own father's son:
Cry, cry, for the day that is won!
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Euripides - Electra |
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7 They journey on from
strength
to strength
With joy and gladsom cheer
Till all before our God at length
In Sion do appear.
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Milton |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Tennyson |
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"There is
Thingumbob
shouting!
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Lewis Carroll |
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As to the nerveless hand of some old warrior The sword-hilt or the war-worn wonted helmet
Brings
momentary
life and long-fled cunning, So to my soul grown old
Grown old with many a jousting, many a foray, Grown old with many a hither-coming and hence-
going
Till now they send him dreams and no more deed ; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of the elders,
Forgetful that who rules doth no more battle, Forgetful that such might no more cleaves to him; So doth he flame again toward valiant doing.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
"
But that old Sage looked calmly up, and with his awful book,
At those two Bachelors' bald heads a certain aim he took;
And over Crag and
precipice
they rolled promiscuous down,--
At once they rolled, and never stopped in lane or field or town;
And when they reached their house, they found (besides their want
of Stuffin'),
The Mouse had fled--and, previously, had eaten up the Muffin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
Wid that we wint aff to the widdy's, next door, and ye may well say it
was an
illigant
place; so it was.
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Poe - 5 |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot endlessly there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court
different
desires to ease their lack.
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Ronsard |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"In other words," he adds, "to read a
criticism of Baudelaire's without the title affixed is by no means a
sure method of
recognizing
the picture afterward.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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" Lycius blush'd, and led
The old man through the inner doors broad-spread;
With reconciling words and
courteous
mien
Turning into sweet milk the sophist's spleen.
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Keats |
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What a world of happiness their harmony
foretells!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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His gaze has filled me, brother,
With shaking and a
dreadful
fear.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Long absent hence, I
dedicate
this day
My swains to visit, and the works survey.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But the speech
would certainly be
preserved
in the archives of the Fabian
nobles.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If
weakened
with shame and bad conscience
One of those criminals comes, squinting out over my garden,
Bridling at nature's pure fruit, punish the knave in his hindparts,
Using the stake which so red rises there at your loins.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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e freke in his fyue fyngres,
[B] & alle his
afyaunce
vpon folde wat3 in ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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[Sidenote: Approach then, Rhetoric, with thy
persuasive
charms,
and therewith let Music also draw near.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The real you is fierce, of
pitiless
cruelty:
The false you one enjoys, in true intimacy,
I sleep beside your ghost, rest by an illusion:
Nothing's denied me.
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Ronsard |
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A man is a summons and challenge;
(It is vain to skulk--Do you hear that mocking and
laughter?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Miss
Dickinson
was born in Amherst, Mass.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In _Lamia_ he shows a very much greater sense of proportion and
power of
selection
than in his earlier work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Wherfore
I rede, in thy going,
And also in thyn ageyn-coming,
Thou be wel war that men ne wit;
Feyne thee other cause than it 2520
To go that weye, or faste by;
To hele wel is no folye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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outen any
grucchyng
word,
Mete ?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"--
Ere half this region-whisper had come down,
Hyperion
arose, and on the stars 350
Lifted his curved lids, and kept them wide
Until it ceas'd; and still he kept them wide:
And still they were the same bright, patient stars.
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Keats |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And
microbes
more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To
luncheon
at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of implied warranties or
the exclusion or limitation of
consequential
damages, so the
above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Bend o'er us, like a bower, my
beautiful
green willow!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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CX cum CIX
continuant
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ses oeuvres lui ont survecu,
mais la place d'honneur qu'il
meritait
par son genie parmi les
romantiques ne lui fut vraiment accordee qu'a l'aube de ce siecle.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_All insert_ And _at the
beginning
of
the line_; _but read_ I herd-e.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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<>,
mi disse, <
poi sopra 'l vero ancor lo pie non fida,
ma te rivolve, come suole, a voto:
vere
sustanze
son cio che tu vedi,
qui rilegate per manco di voto.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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you seem to look for
something
at my hands,
Say, old top-knot, what do you want?
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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ossa quieta, precor, tuta
requiescite
in urna,
et sit humus cineri non onerosa tuo!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
]
[Sub-Variant 5: This couplet was
cancelled
in the edition of 1827.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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SCENE: In front of Agathon's house;
afterwards
in the precincts of the
Temple of Demeter.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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But there is no nerve thou takest not,
No way of my life
thronging
not with thee,
And my blood sounds at the story of thy beauty.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
In that same hour and hall,
The fingers of a hand
Came forth against the wall,
And wrote as if on sand:
The fingers of a man;--
A
solitary
hand
Along the letters ran,
And traced them like a wand.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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O lead me onward to the loneliest shade,
The darkest place that quiet ever made,
Where
kingcups
grow most beauteous to behold
And shut up green and open into gold.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
From
chrysanthemums
hung this autumn?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
But if this be true, has art nothing to do with moral
judgments?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
CCXVI
Through all the field dismount the Frankish men,
Five-score
thousand
and more, they arm themselves;
The gear they have enhances much their strength,
Their horses swift, their arms are fashioned well;
Mounted they are, and fight with great science.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No drearier can
prevail!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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" KAU}
Of his three daughters were
encompassd
by the twelve bright halls
Every hall surrounded by bright Paradises of Delight
In which are towns & Cities Nations Seas Mountains & Rivers {Minor grammatical changes, in tense ("were" mended to "are") and capitalization ("mountains" to "Mountains") KAU}
Each Dome opend toward four halls & the Three Domes Encompassd
The Golden Hall of Urizen whose western side glowd bright
With ever streaming fires beaming from his awful limbs
His Shadowy Feminine Semblance here reposd on a [bright] White Couch
Or hoverd oer his Starry head & when he smild she brightend
Like a bright Cloud in harvest.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Places of life and of death,
Numbered and named as streets,
What, through your
channels
of stone,
Is the tide that unweariedly beats?
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I agree, and thus I plyghte
Honde, and harte, and all that's myne;
Goode syr Rogerr, do us ryghte, 145
Make us one, at
Cothbertes
shryne.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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a Golden World whose porches round the heavens
And pillard halls & rooms recievd the eternal wandering stars
A wondrous golden Building; many a window many a door
And many a division let in & out into the vast unknown
[Cubed] Circled in infinite orb immoveable, within its arches all walls & cielings {According to Erdman, "The second reading is erased; yet it is supported by the
reference
back to "Cubes" and "window" in 33:4-5.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
e Rounde Table,
2520 [G] & he
honoured
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Will you always stand there
shivering?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Continually
in the midst of Erech weapons
the heroes purified.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Their
religious
rites were, if possible, still more horrid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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quae quoniam uerae nascuntur pectore ab imo,
uos nolite pati nostrum
uanescere
luctum,
sed quali solam Theseus me mente reliquit, 200
tali mente, deae, funestet seque suosque.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Did ever Proteus, Merlin, any witch, }
Transform themselves so
strangely
as the rich?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Sweet moans, sweeter smiles,
All the
dovelike
moans beguiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
e
bytynges
of besines ne eschewe ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
SPIKKY SPARROW
THE BROOM, THE SHOVEL, THE POKER, AND THE TONGS THE TABLE AND THE
CHAIR
NONSENSE
STORIES.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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As for will and
testament
I leave none,
Save this: "Vers and canzone to the Countess of
Beziers
In return for the first kiss she gave me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
My
venerated
reader, oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
The
moonshine
stealing o'er the scene
Had blended with the lights of eve;
And she was there, my hope, my joy,
My own dear Genevieve!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
But when by shame
constraiiutl
to go on board,
He heard how the wild cannon iK^uier roared.
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, which was given him back,'
doubtless
by his brother William.
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And we both shall
monarchs
prove.
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ǣghwylc
ōðrum
trȳwe, 1166.
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Fine was the mitigated fury, like
Apollo's presence when in act to strike
The serpent--Ha, the
serpent!
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It is
noteworthy
that
his tombstone bore the inscription, "His skill lay in the writing of
archaic songs.
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mais l'air est tout plein d'une odeur de
bataille!
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Thus, when the storm with sudden gust invades
The ancient forest's deep and lofty shades,
The bursting whirlwinds tear their rapid course,
The shatter'd oaks crash, and with echoes hoarse
The mountains groan, while whirling on the blast
The thick'ning leaves a gloomy darkness cast;
Such was the tumult in the blest abodes,
When Mars, high tow'ring o'er the rival gods,
Stepp'd forth: stern sparkles from his eye-balls glanc'd,
And now, before the throne of Jove advanc'd,
O'er his left shoulder his broad shield he throws,
And lifts his helm[85] above his dreadful brows:
Bold and enrag'd he stands, and, frowning round,
Strikes his tall spear-staff on the sounding ground;
Heav'n trembled, and the light turn'd pale[86]--such dread
His fierce demeanour o'er Olympus spread--
When thus the warrior: "O Eternal Sire,
Thine is the sceptre, thine the thunder's fire,
Supreme dominion thine; then, Father, hear,
Shall that bold race which once to thee was dear,
Who, now fulfilling thy decrees of old,
Through these wild waves their
fearless
journey hold,
Shall that bold race no more thy care engage,
But sink the victims of unhallow'd rage!
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Now even I, a fond woman,
Frail and of small understanding, 20
Yet with
unslakable
yearning
Greatly desiring wisdom,
Come to the threshold of reason
And the bright portals.
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Sappho |
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The blackbird sings us home, on a sudden peers
The round tower hung with ivy's
blackened
chains,
Then past the little green the byeway veers,
The mill-sweeps torn, the forge with cobwebbed panes
That have so many years looked out across the plains.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Those here
selected
are
strung into something of an Eclogue, with perhaps a less than equal
proportion of the "Drink and make-merry," which (genuine or not)
recurs over-frequently in the Original.
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The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the memories that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine
fashion)
Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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